Rolltide1984 Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 We have an SD Card that we used with a director last year. We had a computer crash and lost our files. I tried opening up the sequence files from that card but it doesn't show them as available to open. I had hoped maybe we could salvage those sequence and mp3 files. Does anyone know if there is a way to access them from that SD Card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 You can copy the MP3's, but the sequences on the SD card are not readable by the software. There is no way to convert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 1 hour ago, Rolltide1984 said: We have an SD Card that we used with a director last year. We had a computer crash and lost our files. I know this does not help you now, but for future reference: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDucks Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 2 hours ago, Rolltide1984 said: We have an SD Card that we used with a director last year. We had a computer crash and lost our files. I tried opening up the sequence files from that card but it doesn't show them as available to open. I had hoped maybe we could salvage those sequence and mp3 files. Does anyone know if there is a way to access them from that SD Card? Crash? Can mean a lot of things to regular folk. Was it a Hard drive fail? No: Do you still have the unit? Place the drive in a USB caddy (or just use an 'cloning' adapter. No case) to get at files (and save them to more robust location). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orville Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 2 hours ago, TheDucks said: Crash? Can mean a lot of things to regular folk. Was it a Hard drive fail? No: Do you still have the unit? Place the drive in a USB caddy (or just use an 'cloning' adapter. No case) to get at files (and save them to more robust location). Won't do any good. MP3 files ARE the ONLY ones you can salvage from a created Show SD Card. The .las or .lms sequences files are ALL converted to a .SEQ file when written to the SD card as a show file that ONLY the Director can use. These .SEQ files are NOT CONVERTABLE back to their .las or .lms counterparts, once in the .SEQ format, that's it, SE CAN NOT read it or use it. As Don said, no way to convert them back. Just not possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 @Orville He was talking about putting the HD into a USB caddy. Not the SD card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDucks Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 36 minutes ago, Orville said: Won't do any good. MP3 files ARE the ONLY ones you can salvage from a created Show SD Card. The .las or .lms sequences files are ALL converted to a .SEQ file when written to the SD card as a show file that ONLY the Director can use. These .SEQ files are NOT CONVERTABLE back to their .las or .lms counterparts, once in the .SEQ format, that's it, SE CAN NOT read it or use it. As Don said, no way to convert them back. Just not possible. My reply was asking if he had the sick PC. He may have a chance at the original files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolltide1984 Posted November 3, 2023 Author Share Posted November 3, 2023 The computer we had all the files on crashed and they were not able to get anything off the hard drive. We were just trying to find a way to salvage the sequences we had before. We have some from several years ago but will have to go in and tweak/edit to make them work. I had just hoped maybe there was a way to get them off the SD card we used last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimehc Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 (edited) There is a BIG difference between a "Crash" and a "Drive Failure"... More then likely your files were intact after the "Crash" , but a Drive Failure would of made the Drive inaccessible and very difficult to recover any files.... Edited November 3, 2023 by Jimehc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Looks like it's a drive failure, since they already had someone look at it. 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimehc Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Don, most folks simply reformat and reinstall the OS - because they could not access the PC via the booting/bootable OS... But what I have done (PC Recovery & Software Development) for many years, is not going to help anyone now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibblejr Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 12 hours ago, Rolltide1984 said: The computer we had all the files on crashed and they were not able to get anything off the hard drive. We were just trying to find a way to salvage the sequences we had before. We have some from several years ago but will have to go in and tweak/edit to make them work. I had just hoped maybe there was a way to get them off the SD card we used last year. Contact Samsung, I had an issue but not LOR files, puctures from an old HDD and Samsung was able to recover 95% of the data. it cost me some $ but pictures that were from the 40’s through 90’s was in it. The HDD was not a Samsung. They sent me a USB drive with the files on it. That’s if you feel the files are worth it. JR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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